Today's Wine Bottle Photography Tip is short and sweet. When taking the wine bottle image, use a gray-card to ensure your white balance is as awesome. And, take the image in RAW format. You will be greatly rewarded for making the extra effort.

So the work flow is simple but worth listing:

1) Take each image with a gray card. I tape a small one to the front of the plastic stand I perch the bottle upon.

2) Open the image using Photoshop's Camera Raw.

3) Use the white balance tool to adjust the image with just one click.

That is it. So short and simple, but so important to creating an image with the colors correct and true.

Tom Nelson is a product photographer that has specialized in wine photographs and bottle photography for over 10 years. As a commercial photographer, Tom's mission is to create the highest quality wine images for his wine industry clients. Tom also publishes a blog that provides wine industry news and instruction on bottle photography and glass photography.